MERAWI IN 1897 C.B., Colonel Lewis, Colonel Broadwood, Captain Mahon, Major Tudway, and others, and behind these were the mud-barracks.

Close to General Rundle's house were a number of tents in which some non-commissioned British officers, assisted by Shahin Effendi, did the " paper work " connected with the administration of the army at Merawi, and two large tents which served Colonel Wingate and Slatin Pasha for offices. In a comparatively good, but new, mud-house lived the uianiur, a native official who held THE MESS OF THE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT AT MERAWI IN 1897.

authority under General Rundle, and who tried to carry out the functions of the governor of a town with a settled community.

Immediately behind his house, looking towards the desert from the river, was ths suk, or " market," in which the shopkeepers were mostly Greeks. Here in small mud-houses these enterprising and most useful people lived, and it vvas astonishing to see how they managed to store so many varieties of useful articles in a small space. They successfully catered for everybody, from the General to the " boy " or servant, and from the nianmr to the camp-followers. They found out by some mysterious means 183